 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...matters of reason, \ and judgment, / and not of inclination ; / and what sort of reason - is that, in which one set of men deliberate, \ and another...three hundred miles distant from those who hear the argument. BURKE. CONVICTION. Finally, there is a peculiar slyle of speaking which not unfrequently... | |
 | James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1847 - 376 pages
...inclination, it quite altered the case. " What sort of reason is that," he inquired, " which precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate, and...form the conclusion are, perhaps, three hundred miles from those who hear the argument ?" After a few masterly strokes, in which he stated the sacrifices... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and anothei decide, and where those who form the conclusion are...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set o£ men deliberate and another decide, and where those...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election.... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of constitu ents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...this: " Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; hut what the winter, that a revenumust he had out of America. Instantly h was tied down to his engagements h deliherate and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pages
...governments. "Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . , . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pages
...classified so as to 2 Adolphus, Hist., ii. 143. exh1bit tho number of petitions, elination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament... | |
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If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination : and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination... 
